Friday, May 11, 2012

Electronics Weekly: IC Insights predicts sales of CMOS image sensors to grow 8% in 2012 to $6.3bn compared to $5.8bn in 2011, when the market climbed 29% from $4.5bn in 2010. More importantly, the 2011 increase was the first back-to-back annual sales gain for CMOS image sensors since 2006.

CMOS image sensor sales before the downturn registered a record of $4.6bn in 2008. The sales fell 16% in 2009 and declined nearly 14% in 2007.

IC Insights expect the CMOS image sensor market to reach $10.8bn in 2016 – a CAGR of 13% over the next five years compared to a CAGR of just 5% between 2006 and 2011.

Automotive is the fastest growing CMOS image sensor application with sales reaching $1.8bn in 2016, or about 17% of the market’s total dollar volume that year. Camera cellphones will continue to be the largest CMOS image sensor application in 2016 with sales expected to be $5.4bn or 50% of the revenues overall, compared to about $4.2bn or 72% of the total in 2011.

Update:Solid State Technology published a graph on unit volumes and dollar sales of CMOS sensors based on IC Insights data:

7 comments:

Aptina as #6 doesn't make sense to me. I thought Aptina was in the top 3, which were tightly spaced, with ST, Sony and Toshiba considerably behind the top 3. Have there been other 2011 ranking releases?

What a bunch of garbage this report and forecast is. Many research firms put imaging sensors out to 2017 at around $20B USD. Numerous applications have arisen including biometrics, automotive, primary and scondary imagers for smartphones/tablets.